Quotes About Mindfulness

Remember, happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think.

Let's not allow ourselves to be upset by small things we should despise and forget. Remember Life is too short to be little.

If you want to gather honey, don't kick over the beehive.

Today is our most precious possession. It is our only sure possession.

Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment.

Let's never try to get even with our enemies, because if we do we will hurt ourselves far more than we hurt them. Let's do as General Eisenhower does: let's never waste a minute thinking about people we don't like.

We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses blooming outside our windows today

Think of your life as an hourglass. You know there are thousands of grains of sand in the top of the hourglass; and they all pass slowly and evenly through the narrow neck in the middle. Nothing you or I could do would make more than one grain of sand pass through this narrow neck without impairing the hourglass. You and I and everyone else are like this hourglass...if we do not take [tasks] one at a time and let them pass...slowly and evenly, then we are bound to break our own...structure.

The words Think and Thank are inscribed in many of the Cromwellian churches of England. These words ought to be inscribed in our hearts, too: Think and Thank. Think of all we have to be grateful for, and thank God for all our boons and bounties.

Today is the tommorrow you worried about yesterday.

Whenever you go out-of-doors, draw the chin in, carry the crown of the head high, and fill the lungs to the utmost; drink in the sunshine; greet your friends with a smile, and put soul into every handclasp.

Those who do not know how to fight worry die young.

Apply the blacksmith's homely principle when you are speaking. If you feel deeply about your subject you will be able to think of little else. Concentration is a process of distraction from less important matters. It is too late to think about the cut of your coat when once you are upon the platform, so centre your interest on what you are about to say—fill your mind with your speech-material and, like the infilling water in the glass, it will drive out your unsubstantial fears.

one of the worst features about worrying is that it destroys our ability to concentrate.

Shut off the past! Let the dead past bury its dead. . . . Shut out the yesterdays which have lighted fools the way to dusty death. . . . The load of tomorrow, added to that of yesterday, carried today, makes the strongest falter. Shut off the future as tightly as the past. . . . The future is today. . . . There is no tomorrow.

Let's not allow ourselves to be upset by small things we should despise and forget. Remember "Life is too short to be little.

There is only one way to happiness," Epictetus taught the Romans, "and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.

Don't do the natural thing, the impulsive thing. That is usually wrong.

Let's do as General Eisenhower does: let's never waste a minute thinking about people we don't like.

I once asked General Eisenhower's son, John, if his father ever nourished resentments. "No," he replied, "Dad never wastes a minute thinking about people he doesn't like.

Don't complain about the snow on your neighbor's roof," said Confucius, "when your own doorstep is unclean.

Think and Thank." Think of all we have to be grateful for, and thank God for all our boons and bounties.

What has habit been doing to me?

By talking to yourself every hour of the day, you can direct yourself to think thoughts of courage and happiness, thoughts of power and peace. By talking to yourself about the things you have to be grateful for, you can fill your mind with thoughts that soar and sing.